Why no violent crime in Iceland, where gun ownership is common?

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guns, Iceland, RKBA, violent crime

There was a first in Iceland: “Police in Iceland have shot dead a gunman – the first time armed police have killed someone in the country.” Police there are normally NOT armed. (same link) And Icelanders are armed, 90K guns owned by 300K people (same link).

Whoa. For someone who grew up in the Bronx, follows US news, and often carries a concealed handgun because of the first two points this is remarkable. Why is this so? How do they do this? What can we Americans learn from them?

The linked article suggests very low hard drug use, and 97% identify as middle or working class which suggests they don’t have a parasitic economic elite like we do.

Could there be a different, or additional answer? Steve Sailer, one of my favorite alt-right writers, thinks the answer is that it is full of Islanders and has almost no “diversity”.

I’ll go with all of the above.

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Pat Buchanan on the appeal of mass murder

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mass shootings, violent crime

Pat Buchanan weighs in on why committing mass murder appeals to the sick freaks that shoot up schools, colleges, etc. http://buchanan.org/blog/the-allure-of-mass-murder-124150

Much of what he says makes sense to me, here’s a snippet. The whole article is worth reading.

In a de-Christianized America where no higher law exists, killing is a commonplace occurrence, and the popular culture is polluted by raw sex and violence, what answer does society give to the Harper-Mercers who are willing to kill in large numbers to become famous?

We are not the rules-based society we once were. We have junked the Christian code, embraced absolute social freedom, and dispensed with the moral sanctions.

Yet instead of the Great Society of liberalism’s promise, we seem to be approaching a society that is sick unto death.